order of switches

[Philipp Thomas]

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:26:35 -0700, Igor Markov <imarkov@cs.ucla.edu>
wrote:

>   well... thank you very much, but I've been working with SunCC
>   for 3+ years, am now porting to g++ and having problems
>   (which is why the question arose)

Well how about telling so in your first mail? 

>   oh, well... it looks people like reading 50% of email and
>   shoot a reply immediately. That's rarely useful.

And it won't help you a bit accusing those that try to help you.

>> The man pages are very minimal guides to the option flags.  The real
>> documentation of GCC is in the texinfo files.
>
>    I get an impression of that this is some kind of conspiracy (gee !)
>    .. not sure, but, perhaps, to cause people to buy support ?

You really have a way to make friends. First its our job to supply you with
binaries, now we conspire to get you to pay for support. Seems to have been
some heavy stuff that you smoked.
Get real, man! Texinfo is the only official FSF form of documentation. If
*that* wasn't supplied, you would have a reason to complain.

>    (yes, I understand one can look at this from difft angles ... but
>     once I have my angle, it may be difficult to convince me otherwise)

Why should we want to convince you? Why should we care what you think?
There are lots of other people that know better and that appreciate the
efforts to supply them with a free compiler and also the efforts to help
them with problems here on the list.



Philipp

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